Research Interests

• Remote Sensing of Natural Resources
• Spatial Statistics
• Land Use and Land Cover Change
• GIS and Spatial Modeling

Education

• Ph.D. in Environmental Science, University of California, Berkeley, 2006
• M.A. in Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, 2004
• M.S.  in Environmental Science, University of California, Berkeley, 2003
• B.E. in GIS, Wuhan University, 2001

Teaching

• Geography 883.02 - Application of Quantitative Methods in Geography (II) (Spring 2007, 2008)
• Statistics 427 - Introduction to Probability and Statistics (I) (Spring 2008)
• Statistics 428 - Introduction to Probability and Statistics (II) (Spring 2007)
• Geography 683 - Introduction to Geographic Analysis (Autumn 2006, 2007)
• Geography 607 - Fundamentals of GIS (team taught) (Autumn 2006, 2007)
• Public Health 274 - GIS and Remote Sensing in Public Health (taught with Edmund Seto at Berkeley) (Spring 2005)

Recent Publications

• Liu, D., and R. Pu. 2008. Downscaling thermal infrared radiance for subpixel land surface temperature retrieval. Sensors Journal 8: 2695-2706.
• Liu, D., K. Song, J.R. Townshend, and P. Gong. 2008. Using local transition probability models in Markov random fields for forest change detection. Remote Sensing of Environment 112(5): 2222-2231.
• Liu, D., M. Kelly, P. Gong, and Q. Guo. 2007. Characterizing spatial-temporal tree mortality patterns associated with a new forest disease. Forest Ecology and Management 253: 220-231.
• Kelly, M., Q. Guo, D. Liu, and D. Shaari. 2007. Modeling the risk of a new invasive forest disease in the United States: an evaluation of five environmental niche models. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 31(6): 689-710.
• Guo, Q., M. Kelly, P. Gong, and D. Liu. 2007. Detection of a tree disease related mortality combining object-based and knowledge-based classifications. GIScience and Remote Sensing 44(1): 24-47.
• Liu, D., M. Kelly, and P. Gong. 2006. A spatial-temporal approach to monitoring forest disease spread using multi-temporal high spatial resolution imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment 101(2): 167-180.
• Liu, D., P. Gong, M. Kelly, and Q. Guo. 2006. Automatic registration of airborne images with complex local distortion. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 72(9): 1049-1059.
• Liu, D., M. Kelly, and P. Gong. 2005. Classifying multi-temporal TM imagery using Markov random fields and support vector machines. Proceedings of the IEEE Third International Workshop on the Analysis of Multi-temporal Remote Sensing Images, 225-228.
• Kim, A., D. Liu, and P. Gong. 2004. Change detection from SPOT-Panchromatic imagery at the urban-rural fringe of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Geographic Information Sciences 10(1): 42-48.
• Kelly, M. and D. Liu. 2004. Mapping diseased oak trees using ADAR imagery. Geocarto International 19(1): 57-64.
• Kelly, M., D. Shaari, Q. Guo, and D. Liu. 2004. A comparison of standard and hybrid classifier methods for mapping hardwood mortality in areas affected by sudden oak death. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 70(11): 1229-1239.

Honors and Awards

• Robert N. Colwell Memorial Fellowship, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS), 2006
• First Place in Student Honors Paper Competition, Remote Sensing Specialty Group, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Chicago, 2006
• Association of American Geographers International Geographic Information Fund (AAG-IGIF), 2005
• Student Scholarship, Second Sudden Oak Death Science Symposium, Monterey, 2005
• Travel Award, First Symposium for the Earth Systems Scholars Network, Adelphi, Maryland, 2004
• NASA Earth System Science Graduate Student Fellowship, NASA, 2003~2006
• Student Scholarship, Sudden Oak Death Science Symposium, Monterey, 2002

Last Update: April, 2008